The US Secretary of Commerce Ms Penny Pritzker had on granting audience to the ANE-DG, directed that meetings be arranged for her staff to meet with the DG in the Department of Commerce. The meeting was arranged and held in Commerce Building with Ms. Elizabeth Whiteman of the Foreign Trade Zone Board and Mr. Seth Isenberg of Select USA Agency.

The focus was on the establishment of Nigerian Trade Office &amp; Export House in Atlanta, and opportunities for collaboration between Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) and US Foreign Trade Zones Board, as well as the Association of Nigerian Exporters (ANE) and the US National Association of Foreign Trade Zones (NAFTZ). The ANE is a statutory Member of NEPZA Governing Board and ANE-DG Prince Joseph Idiong had been serving as Member of the NEPZA Board at the time.

The Select USA Investment Summit was addressed by US President Barrack Obama. ANE-DG also had audience with the Senior Adviser to the US President Ms. Valerie Jarrett who introduced the DG to the Special Assistant to the US President on Private Sector for further support of our initiatives.

As the ANE-DG Prince Idiong was the only delegate to attend the event from Nigeria, he later paid a courtesy call on the then Nigerian Ambassador to USA Amb. Ade Adefuye in the Nigerian Embassy, Washington DC and briefed him on the SelectUSA Event and the opportunities for Nigerians in the Diaspora to partner with the ANE to promote Inbound and Outbound Trade and Investment under African Growth & Opportunities Act (AGOA).

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